Ugay, Nicole G.

BS Psychology-3A

PSYCHOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Final Exam
-Essay-

1. Discuss how and why psychology assessment is relevant to our society today.
Psychology is crucial to every aspect of our lives. It is the scientific study of human behavior and
mental health processes. Psychology existed already since ancient times and up until now it still
continues to give relevant and respected studies discovering and aiding to the needs of human
life. Imagine if we will just neglect our mental health and that there will be no professionals or
experts in that field to help us with such cases? That is why I think that the most important part
of psychology is Psychology Assessment. It is used by psychologists in order for them to gain
information and facts about a person so that they can have and see a clear picture of how that
person is functioning.
Psychology assessments have been used in different fields, psychologists undergo procedures
to create assessment such as interviews, observation, written assessment, consultation and
formal psychological test for them to diagnose a person and provide corresponding treatments.
When it comes to the benefit of society I know psychology assessment already is giving that,
just like when you are applying for a job you need to pass in the company’s HR to see if you are
really qualified that you have the personality needed for the job and you can cope up with the
stressing situations in a workplace. Aptitude test during college entrance exams, necessary for
you to pass and be enrolled to the school for them to know you have the capabilities and skills
needed to become a successful and a good student. I can see that Psychology Assessment can
also provide tests that are necessary for every field so that the person who will be in that
certain place is in its good condition and ready to face the challenges. It serves as our guide for
us not to just pick up people randomly.
What I most think that Psychology Assessment would be helpful to society is assessing people
with mental issues. Because I think they’re just alive but they feel dead inside, some people
with mental issues also are a threat to his or her fellow not just his or herself for the reason
that they may also hurt others. There are people who are questioning about themselves right
now, unaware and do not know what they are feeling and what to do with themselves or worst
might think of just ending their sufferings through “suicide” that’s why it’s necessary that they
are assessed so that they’ll be diagnose properly to what really is the cause of it and will be able
to provide the right treatment for it. I think Psychology Assessment can give new life to those
who are dying inside and only psychologists can do that. Let’s continue to care, spread love and
happiness.
2. What is your most important learning in this course, explain thoroughly.
The most important thing that I learned from this course is to “never judge” we don’t just look
at a person and finally conclude just what you merely see. Psychology Assessment doesn’t work
like that because it needs to undergo procedures for them to come out with a diagnosis so that
they’ll know what corresponding treatments a patient needed. It is not in our hands to judge a
person, we don’t even know what that person is facing in his life or why is he or she is acting
that way. Its not on our hands to make plain observations and that we should be
knowledgeable about Psychological Testing and Assessment because if we will continue to
choose this road and make psychology as our passion. Commitment to our work and being
knowledgeable about it is necessary. We could help a lot of people suffering from mental illness
and the society today needs a lot of psychologists.
3. Pick out a psychology test then discuss its nature, psychometric properties,
development, and utility. How helpful do you think is your psychology test to you and
others?
If I were to pick out a psychology test that would be a “personality test”. One of the earliest
forms of personality tests, known as phrenology, emerged during the late 18 th-century and was
popularized during the 19th-century later on psychologist began to determine how many
different personalities are there just like Gordon Allport who proposed that there were more
than 4,000 personalities and Psychologist Raymond Catell who used a statistical technique
known as factor analysis and list down 16 different personality factors but Hans Eysenck listed it
down to three.
A personality test is used to assess human personality. According to the Wiki, personality is
defined as the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve
from biological and environmental factors. While there is no generally agreed upon definition
of personality, most theories focus on motivation and psychological interactions with one’s
environment. There are two basic types of personality test the self-report inventories and
projective test. Self- report inventories is making test read the questions and then rate how the
question or statement applies to them while the projective test is presenting the test-taker with
a vague scene, object, or scenario and asking them to give their interpretation of the test item.
Self-report personality test can be standardized and can establish norms, they are easy to
administer and they have much higher reliability and validity than projective test but projective
test is the one most used by psychotherapist because they can quickly gather information
about the client with these type of test.
Personality test is have been used for a lot of its different purposes including assessing theories,
evaluating the effectiveness of therapy, diagnosing psychological problems, looking at changes
in personality and screening job candidates but sometimes personality test is also used in
forensic setting to conduct risk assessments, establishing competence and most especially in
child custody disputes. Other utilities of this test is in school psychology, occupational
counseling, employment testing and lastly clinical psychology.
I think that this kind of psychology test is helpful to me and to others because it can help us
learn about ourselves and better understand both our weaknesses and strengths. Whatever
result we may receive on that test we can use it as a guide to know what should we do about
ourselves. It helps us recognize and indicates what is our personality type and I think knowing it
greatly benefit to all of us.